What was done to you at Eleanor Roosevelt High was not okay. The coach went to prison; the district got sued.

4,417 kids. That's Roosevelt, on Scholar Way in Eastvale, the biggest high school in Riverside County. The man who ran its track and cross-country program pleaded guilty in August 2020, eight counts, students, conduct going back to 2014, and he's doing four years in state prison for it. Five women who ran for him have sued the district. A second coach has since pleaded guilty, a third teacher was arrested, and in 2024 so was the principal, for allegedly not reporting. If a teacher or a coach at Roosevelt did something to you, this is about you.

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You ran for him and you were never one of the five. Five women sued. He coached that program for ten years, and the sheriff's own release said multiple students. Five is who filed, not who was there.
It wasn't him. Roosevelt has had a water polo coach plead guilty, a theatre teacher arrested and a principal arrested since 2019. The district is the same district every time.
It never went as far as what he pleaded to. Messages that shouldn't have been sent, a hand where it shouldn't be at practice, an adult who kept finding you alone. That is what a school is supposed to stop, and it is what the complaint says nobody stopped.
You told a coach, a counselor, a teacher, anyone, and he stayed on the track. That is the district's part of this, and it is the part the five families are suing over.
Your kid ran for him, or your friend did, and they won't make the call. Make it for them.
You're 25 and figure the moment passed. It didn't. California gives you until 40. A freshman in the fall of 2014 has until about 2040, then, give or take a birthday.

The Eleanor Roosevelt High School record: the arrests, the plea, the lawsuit, and when

We didn't write what's below. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department did, and the Superior Court, and the reporters who covered them, and the plaintiffs' lawyers where we say so, and we link to every one. We don't add to it. Where a case is still open we say charged or alleged, because that is all it is.

October 11, 2019

Joe Robles Jr., 36, the head cross-country and track coach at Roosevelt and a teacher there. The district told the sheriff's department on September 26 what it had learned, and on October 11 he was arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and rape of a minor under 14. Multiple sexual relationships with students, investigators said, plus contact with current and former students over social media. Bail: $1 million. NBC Los Angeles.

August 2020

Eight counts, felony and misdemeanor. Robles pleaded guilty to all of them, sexual battery, annoying a minor and statutory rape among them, for conduct between August 2014 and July 2017, and was sentenced to four years in state prison. He'd been on the Corona-Norco Unified payroll since 2009. Patch.

April 27, 2022

The lawsuit. Five former students, 14 to 17 when it happened and in their early twenties when they filed, sued Robles and Corona-Norco Unified School District in Riverside County Superior Court. Failed to supervise its staff, the complaint alleges; didn't monitor teacher-student boundaries; didn't act on warning signs. Much of the grooming, their lawyers said, happened out in the open, at practices and at meets, with administrators, teachers and staff right there to see it. Plaintiffs' counsel.

April 2022

Same month. Amanda Quinonez was arrested. Language-arts teacher, water polo coach at Roosevelt since 2016; the suspicion was lewd acts with a male student, and explicit photos sent to him. KTLA.

November 16, 2023

A third teacher, Chad Costello, 44. Sheriff's investigators had been looking at his contact with students since April 2023, and in November they arrested him in Anaheim, charges of child annoyance and sexual battery. Charged, not convicted, as of the last report we can find. FOX 11.

February 9, 2024

Then the principal, Greg Anderson, 44. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department arrested him on suspicion of misdemeanor failure to report child abuse, cited him and let him go, and the district put him on leave. The sheriff's allegation was that the Costello matter never got reported to law enforcement. An allegation, that's all; we haven't found a public record of how it resolved. Patch.

March 16, 2026

Quinonez pleaded guilty in Riverside Superior Court. Seven counts. A felony count of lewd acts on a child under 15 was one; two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object and one of oral copulation of a child were others, and the conduct ran from the fall of 2020 up to her arrest. The judge put sentencing over to August 31, 2026. MyNewsLA.

We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from March 16, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in an Eleanor Roosevelt High School lawsuit

The district. Corona-Norco Unified runs about 53,000 students, which makes it the largest in Riverside County, and it's who the five women named, alongside the coach. A coach who does this answers for himself, and Robles is answering in Lancaster. A district that had him on its payroll for a decade, and, the complaint alleges, let the grooming happen at practices and meets in front of its own staff, answers for everyone he reached. That is the theory in plain words: not that the district did it, but that it was in a position to see it and didn't stop it. The district has denied nothing and admitted nothing in public; it declined to comment when the suit was filed.

Because the district is a public body, a few things are different, and a lawyer will walk you through them. No punitive damages against the district itself. No cap on what a jury can award. And for anything after the start of 2009, which is every year Robles worked there, no government claim to file first.

The individual teachers are defendants too, in their own right. Robles is in one civil case already. The Quinonez plea and the Costello and Anderson arrests are separate matters, and your case does not need any of them to finish first.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse at a public high school

Until you turn 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you, whichever is later. That is California's rule for anyone abused as a minor, Code of Civil Procedure 340.1, and the arithmetic at Roosevelt is easy. Take the girls in the criminal case, 14 to 17 sometime between 2014 and 2017. Born around 1997 to 2003, then. Forty comes for them between 2037 and 2043. Born in 1987 or later, and that is everyone who ever attended Roosevelt, and the door is open on age alone.

The district being a public body adds one thing, and here it helps. For abuse after January 1, 2009 there is no government claim to file first (Government Code 905(m)), and Roosevelt's coach started in 2009. For anything after January 1, 2024 there is no deadline at all. The school only opened in 2006, so if what happened to you was in those first three years, before 2009, a lawyer needs to look at your facts before anyone promises you anything.

Plainly: nobody from the 2014 to 2017 track program is anywhere near out of time. The thing that runs out is not the calendar. It is the texts, the teammates who saw, and who remembers what the adults knew.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told a soul. Some of your teammates did, and you watched what that cost them in 2019.
You liked him. The whole team did, and the parents did. That is how it works.
It never went as far as what was in the plea, and you figure that means it doesn't count.
You think the five who sued got everyone's share. They filed for themselves. Nobody has filed for you.
You were a boy, or it wasn't a coach. The plea in March was about a boy in a language-arts class.
You moved away, same as most of the class of 2017.

Schools covered

Roosevelt itself, 7447 Scholar Way, Eastvale. Anything that ran under its name too. Track and cross-country. Water polo and swim. Theatre, clubs, the off-campus meets and trips. Went to a different Corona-Norco Unified school instead, Corona or Norco or Centennial or Santiago, or one of the district's middle schools? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue Corona-Norco Unified, the district, and not just the coach?

Five former students already have, in Riverside County Superior Court, and their case names the district, not only the coach. Whether you can depends mostly on when you were born and when it happened, which is what the questions above sort out. After 2009, California public school, you were a minor? Usually yes, and you have until you turn 40.

Did the school know about the coach?

That's the whole lawsuit, really, and so far it's an allegation and not a finding. Out in the open, the five women's complaint says: at practices, at meets, in front of administrators and teachers and staff, and nobody stepped in. What we can say for certain is that the district told the sheriff in September 2019 and he was arrested two weeks after. What it knew back in 2014, in 2015, in 2016, that's for a jury.

It wasn't the coach. Mine was a different teacher. Does this page still apply?

It does. Roosevelt's water polo coach pleaded guilty in March 2026, seven counts, one student. A theatre teacher was arrested in 2023 and charged, and charged is all we'll call it, because it isn't a conviction. The principal was arrested in 2024 on an allegation of not reporting. Same district every single time, and a school's duty to supervise doesn't depend on which adult it was.

The coach, was he convicted or only arrested?

Convicted, yes. In August 2020 he pleaded guilty, and the plea was to eight counts, felony and misdemeanor, statutory rape and sexual battery and annoying a minor among them. Four years in state prison. A guilty plea is a conviction, and it's on the record already; nobody needs you to prove it a second time.

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